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In search of Lake Wobegon
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Garrison Keillor |
"In the twenty-seven years since Garrison Keillor first brought it to life, the town of Lake Wobegon has become a national treasure. Every Saturday night, when that unmistakable voice says "It has be… |
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Literary London
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Ed Glinert |
From the Globe at Bankside to the Wimpole Street home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists… |
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Molotov's magic lantern
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Rachel Polonsky |
When the author, a British journalist, moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was Stalin's henchman V… |
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Amsterdam & zijn schrijvers
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J. H. van Geemert |
Informatie in woord en beeld van plekken in Amsterdam die een rol spelen en leven en werk van literaire schrijvers. |
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Imagined London
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Anna Quindlen |
"This book is a tale of three cities: the fictional London that lives in the pages of writers from Shakespeare to P. D. James and Martin Amis; the historical metropolis where so many immortal authors… |
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Four dreamers and Emily
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Stevie Davies |
Four chaste ladies, one of them a 60-year-old virgin, discover passionate love while attending a stuffy conference on Emily Bronte. A look at the influence of literature on love. |
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February house
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Sherill Tippins |
February House is the irresistible story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a … |
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Amore and amaretti
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Victoria Cosford |
Takes you behind the scenes of the restaurants and bars in Tuscany, Umbria, Elba and Perugia. This title includes reviews and features in women's travel and food press. |
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Precipitous city
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Trevor Royle |
Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful of the world's cities, a place of splendor whose craggy skyline brings together two entirely different worlds. To the south of its main thoroughfare, Princes St… |
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Scribblin' for a Livin'
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Thomas J. Reigstad |
In August 1869, 33-year-old journalist Samuel Clemens -- or as he was later known, Mark Twain -- moved to Buffalo, New York. At the time, he had high hopes of establishing himself as a successful new… |
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Reading on location
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Luisa Moncada |
"Reading on Location is essential for anyone wishing to learn more about a potential destination, wanting to follow in the footsteps of a much loved fictional character or desiring to experience a pl… |
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No-Man's Lands
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Scott Huler |
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odysse… |
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Nʹ︠i︡u-Ĭork
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Jesse Zuba |
Explores New York's literary history and discusses the significant events, locations, and writers who have given the city its literary identity. |
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Never can say goodbye
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Sari Botton |
"From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City. Th… |
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The atlas of literature
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Malcolm Bradbury |
The Atlas of Literature explores the fascinating connection between writers and place. This ambitious and exciting book focuses on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and a ti… |
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The Friendship
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Adam Sisman |
The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and ColeridgeThe friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, th… |
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Enchanted Cornwall
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Daphne du Maurier |
This is Daphne du Maurier's personal memoir, the story of how enchanted Cornwall formed her as a writer -- how the spirit of Cornwall awakened in her a response so imaginative that it transformed ord… |
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Dickens's England
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Michael Hardwick |
Conducts the reader to every English scene and building connected at all significantly with Dickens which can still be seen today. |
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Michael Palin's Hemingway adventure
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Basil Pao,Michael Palin |
Companion site to Michael Palin's PBS production under the same title on the life and locales of Ernest Hemingway. Moves in and out of past and present to the places associated with Hemingway: Chicag… |
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Shakespeare's Globe
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David Toor |
A concise compilation of the known (and conjectured) history of Shakespeare's theater that stood from 1599 until a fire destroyed it in 1613. Filled with detailed, charming drawings of the interior a… |
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